1. Papyrus 895
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Papyrus 895
- Title:
- Petition (P.Lond. III 895, TM 11804)
- Scope & Content:
- Beginning of a petition addressed to Sarapion, chief of police (epistates phylakiton), from Protarchus, son of Protarchus, complaining that one of his farmers had left his fields and owed him some sort of payment. With the endorsement ('of Euhemeria') on the back.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Languages:
- Greek, Ancient
- Date Range:
- 28-30
- Extent:
- Papyrus sheet, broken off at the bottom, with some surface damage in places; written on both sides. On the front, there are 13 lines from the top of a column written along the fibres; the last two lines are very fragmentary. Upper and left margins are extant, no margin was left to the right. Vertical folds are still visible. On the back, there is one word written along the fibres in the lower right edge. The papyrus is housed in a glass frame.
